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Friday, September 04, 2009

How many solar panels would it take to power the world?

Not as many as you might think

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Peter is Business and Economy Editor at The Conversation and and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. A former economics editor of The Age and economics correspondent for ABC radio, he has reported economics for four decades.

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